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Egan suggests that the mathematical data constituting a consciousness exists regardless of the order in which the calculations are performed. Even if a simulation is broken into pieces, scattered across time, and computed in a chaotic, non-continuous way ("dust"), the experience of that conscious self still occurs. Key Narrative Features

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If a human brain can be simulated, the "pattern" of that mind is what matters, not the specific physical substrate. Egan suggests that the mathematical data constituting a